2015 Achievement Awards Shortlist
Breakthrough Idea Award Shortlist
- Robin Chase - Founder and Former CEO, Zipcar, Buzzcar and GoLoco; Executive Chairman, Veniam Works; Author of "Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism"
- Salim Ismail - Technology Strategist; Executive Director of Singularity University; Former Vice President of Yahoo!
- Michael Malone - Head Coach, Denver Nuggets
- Yuri van Geest -
- W Chan Kim - Boston Consulting Group Chair and Professor of Strategy and International Management at INSEAD
- Renée Mauborgne - Co-Author of "Blue Ocean Strategy"; INSEAD Fellow of Strategy and International Management
- Dawna Markova - Co-author of "Collaborative Intelligence," CEO of Professional Thinking Partners and Speaker on Intellectual Diversity
- Angie McArthur - CEO of Professional Thinking Partners & Co-author of "Collaborative Intelligence"
- Lee Newman - Professor at IE Business School in Madrid, Lee Newman’s work has been mainly in the area of positive psychology and behavioural science. Recently.
- Brian Robertson - Co-Founder at HolocracyOne
- Dave Ulrich - Rensis Likert Professor of Business, University of Michigan; Co-founder, The RBL Group
Digital Thinking Award Shortlist
- Erik Brynjolfsson - Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business; Co-Author of "The Second Machine Age"
- Andrew McAfee - Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist, Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management; Co-Author of "The Second Machine Age"
- Enrique Dans -
- Peter Diamandis - Thought-leader & Founder and Chair of the X Prize Foundation; Co-Author, "Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World"
- Umair Haque - Director of Havas Media Labs and Blogger for the Harvard Business Review
- Nilofer Merchant - CEO, Author & Strategist
- Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland - Leading IT Scientist
- Don Tapscott - Senior Adviser, World Economic Forum; Author, "The Digital Economy"; Co-author, "Macrowikinomics" and "Wikinomics"
- Jim Whitehurst - CEO of Red Hat
Ideas into Practice
- Zhang Ruimin -
- Jim Whitehurst - CEO of Red Hat
- Peter Diamandis - Thought-leader & Founder and Chair of the X Prize Foundation; Co-Author, "Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World"
- Ray Kurzweil - Chairman of Kurzweil Technologies and A Director of Engineering at Google
- Robert Richards - Space entrepreneur/ futurist and co-founder and CEO of Moon Express, Inc.
- Robin Chase - Founder and Former CEO, Zipcar, Buzzcar and GoLoco; Executive Chairman, Veniam Works; Author of "Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism"
Innovation Award Shortlist
- Scott Anthony - Author and speaker on growth and innovation, creativity and entrepreneurialism.
- Alexa Clay - Writer, Economic Historian, Futurist, Social Entrepreneur, Dreamer of New Economics
- Kyra Maya Phillips - Anchor, "Raising America with Kyra Phillips"
- Rowan Gibson - Business Strategist & Best-Selling Author
- Vijay Govindarajan - Strategic Innovation Expert and World Renowned Professor
- Linda Hill - Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; Co-Author, "Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation"
- Gary Pisano - Innovation and Competitive Strategy Expert; Harvard Business School Professor; Author of “Producing Prosperity” and “Science Business”
- Alf Rehn - A well-regarded academic, he combines rigorous analysis with a creative and often surprising outlook on life, bringing in things like popular culture and philosophical theory into his analyses of modern business and contemporary economy
Leadership Award Shortlist
- Amy Cuddy - Associate Professor, Harvard Business School; Behavioral Scientist and Expert on Nonverbal Behavior, Power and Leadership
- Marshall Goldsmith - Executive Educator, Coach, & Author
- Hal Gregersen - Global Authority on Building Innovative Leaders and Companies; Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center; Co-author, “The Innovator’s DNA”
- Heidi Grant Halvorson - Heidi Grant Halvorson, PhD is a social psychologist, educational consultant, and most recently assistant professor of psychology at Lehigh University.
- Herminia Ibarra - Expert on Leadership and Transition; Insead Professor and Author of "Working Identity"
- Fred Kiel -
- Gianpiero Petriglieri - Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at INSEAD.
- Liz Wiseman - President of The Wiseman Group & Author of the Best-seller MULTIPLIERS
Social Enterprise Award Shortlist
- Liam Black - Wavelength, Co-Founder.
- Bill Drayton - Social Entrepreneur, Founder & C.E.O of Ashoka. Leading an Everyone a Changemaker world movement.
- Pamela Hartigan - Director, Skoll Centre on Social Entrepreneurship
- Rebecca Henderson - Foremost Authority on Sustainable Business, Technology and Innovation; Harvard Business School Professor
- Leila Janah - Social Entreprenuer; Founder and CEO of Samasource - A Global Workforce Initiative
- Johanna Mair - Professor of General Management, IESE Business School
- Alex Nicholls - Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
- Sally Osberg - President and CEO, Skoll Foundation
- Roger Martin Osberg -
Strategy Award Shortlist
- Richard D’Aveni - Dartmouth Professor & Author
- Niraj Dawar -
- Pankaj Ghemawat - Leading Economist and Globalization Guru; Expert on Competitive Business Strategy; Author of "World 3.0"; Professor, Stern School of Business & IESE Business School
- Benjamin Gomes-Casseres - Ben Gomes-Casseres is a leader in global strategy, alliance strategy and international business.
- Rita G McGrath - Expert on Business Strategy in Uncertain Environments; Acclaimed Thinkers50 Thought Leader and Author
- Alex Osterwalder - Antrepreneur, Speaker and Business Model Innovator; Author of "Value Proposition Design"
- Yves Pigneur -
- Michael E Porter - Foremost Authority on Strategy, Competition and Competitive Advantage; Creator of Shared Value Concept; Harvard Business School Professor
- James E. Heppelmann -
- Martin Reeves - Senior Partner and Managing Director for BCG; Bestselling Author of "Your Strategy Needs a Strategy"
- Knut Haanaes -
- Janmejaya Sinha - While every consultant is aware of the emerging growth opportunities in markets like China and India, few have the passion of Janmejaya Sinha.
Talent Award Shortlist
Thinkers50 RADAR Award
Lifetime Achievement
- Henry Mintzberg - Internationally Renowned Academic and Author on Business and Management
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